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Michael Tisius had a last meal of two bacon cheeseburgers, curly fries, regular fries and a chocolate milkshake before being executed by lethal injection at the Missouri state prison

A man has been sentenced to just three years in prison after he raped a 12-year-old girl in a park, leaving his victim suffering 'serious' and 'ongoing' effects from her experience

Tony Hudgell, who has since been adopted, was just 41 days old when he suffered eight fractures to his legs and then developed life-threatening septicaemia in 2014

Michael Tisius, 42, received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m., authorities said

Michael Tisius was sentenced to death 23 years ago after attempting to break an inmate he had shared a cell with out of prison in June 2000, shooting and killing two prison officers in the process

A judge found rapper Young Thug's brother Unfoonk guilty on violating his December 2022 probation with his May 4 arrest and has sentenced him to nine years prison

Christine Grayson, 59, discussed 'getting rid' of the mobile phone masts with expanding foam and angle grinders - she became 'obsessed' with the idea it was linked to the Covid-19 jab

Ricardo Krause has had his 24-year jail sentence reduced to just 18 months after appeal following his daughter's death when she was smothered by a plastic bag in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Belinda Temple’s husband stood trial twice over her death and was found guilty of murder both times

Jail home brew doubled in price in a year, the Chief Inspector of Prisons said. Cons make the drink from fruit, sugar and yeast, brewing up to five litres per container

Kevin Jones was seen on CCTV trying to stalk the victim around the Blackthorn Unit at HMP Bullingdon before pulling a sharpened plastic knife out of his pocket

Seven victims aged under 13 were abused over almost a decade in the Walsall and Wolverhampton areas in what a judge said was a "prolonged and sustained" campaign that left children "terribly psychologically damaged"

Raul Meza Jr, 62, is thought to have murdered as many as 13 people in the course of his offending, which began as early as 1975 and has spent time in and out of prison since

Pieper Lewis, now 18, had faced 20 years in jail for fatally stabbing her alleged rapist to death. After being detained she cut off her GPS ankle monitor and fled women's prison Fresh Start Women's Center in Des Moines, Iowa

The criminals, including prolific paedophiles and rapists, were under the supervision of probation staff when they struck again, and one is thought to be rapist Ashley Shuck

Maxwell - who is serving 20 years in the US after being found guilty of procuring girls for paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to abuse - reported the inmates 'for trying to extort her'

Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will be swapping her vast $9million California mansion, which she shares with her husband and their two children, for the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas

The plan for John Manchec's escape reportedly involved a private plane, a yacht, various vehicles, and a French castle, according to the Indian River County sheriff

Prison Governors’ Association President Andrea Albutt accused the Government of 'lying' to the public by telling them 'that locking up more people and for longer increases public safety'

Alexander Tarasov, a former inmate of Russia's Simferopol Detention Centre, has opened up about life inside, and how innocent civilians are tortured

Kwami Richards, 42, escaped from the van outside Brixton Police Station in South London at 2pm on Friday - police chased him into Brixton Underground Station where he jumped on a train

Ian Huntley, who murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Cambridgeshire, believed for two years he had cancer but tests recently showed otherwise

Andrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governors Association, is calling for the Government to 'be brave' and let lags out early. There are only 900 places left in jails across England and Wales

Beyoncé and her hubby Jay-Z have been roasted by fans after they shelled out an eye-watering $200 million in cash on a 'concrete' mansion that looks like a 'prison', according to Twitter users